Re: Lilypond can't find its fonts

[Graham Percival]

On 1-Aug-04, at 2:14 PM, Benjamin Esham wrote:
> (This is being cross-posted to both lilypond-user and fink-users.  
> Please
> reply to only one of these lists.)

I've left both groups in, to let people know that this issue is being
looked at.  IMO the appropriate place is actually lilypond-devel and 
Matthias
(the fink package maintainer), since this deals with 2.3.x

For future emails, please reply to lilypond-devel and the individuals
involved.  :)


> There are some oddities in the output.  First, the fonts used for the
> header all appear as some monospaced font (Courier?).  I guess this is
> expected, since Lily couldn't find the font files.

Interesting.  My Lilypond setup doesn't have this problem (I'm also on
fink 2.3.8), but...

> The next oddity is the kerning of the fonts in the PDF output.  All of 
> the
> text in the header, as well as textual dynamic markings, is squished
> together and is mostly unreadable.  Oddly, a space character still 
> seems
> to produce the same amount of white space; it's just the letters 
> within a
> word that are compacted together.

... I have this problem.  I've been doing weird things to lilypond and 
tetex
lately, so I figured this was just a personal thing.

> So it looks like the fonts aren't properly installed by the new package
> either.
>
> Can anyone shed any light on these problems?  Many thanks!

2.3.9 has a fairly major change in the way that fonts are created.  
Before 2.3.9,
fonts were extracted from an rpm.  After 2.3.9, fonts are being created 
using
mftrace (the usual way for lilypond to create fonts).  But mftrace has 
only just
been packaged for fink, so there will be some problems.

Sorry I can't help more, but some information is better than none!
- Graham